Word: waspishly
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...convinced that France had shown itself weak, and his patience was ended. Politically endangered and personally disillusioned, he summoned his Cabinet to the Black Forest and spoke for 45 minutes in a waspish voice that grew especially cutting when he alluded to the French. The meeting, scheduled for an hour, stretched into four. Minister after minister rose to contribute his sense of outrage, and the improvised Cabinet room in the hotel swelled with heady, confident talk of Germany resurrected. Next morning, in a formal communiqué, the Adenauer government announced that it would seek restoration of sovereignty and rearmament within...
...Such waspish suspicions were thrust aside in the sudden Gemiitlichkeit of Moscow's reception. On the first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk...
...symphony performance, "discovering" a debutante performer, delivering an essay on one of the intricacies of composition itself, or unabashedly plugging his own works, he hardly ever bored a reader. Last week, after 14 years of what he calls a "honeymoon" with New York's Herald Tribune, waspish Virgil Thomson, 57, announced that he was "tired of listening to music," was quitting to do more composing, lecturing and conducting...
Married. Groucho Marx, 58, waspish clown of cinema (A Night at the Opera) and television (You Bet Your Life); and Eden Hartford, 24, Beverly Hills model; he for the third time, she for the second; in Sun Valley, Idaho...
Harry Ferguson, 69, waspish, Irish-born inventor of farm machinery who once settled a patent suit against Ford out of court for $9,250,000, resigned as board chairman and director of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, which was formed only last October by the merger of Canada's Massey-Harris Co. and a group of Britain's Harry Ferguson companies. Ferguson announced that he will devote himself to "new inventions-outside the agricultural field" (reportedly a cheap "people's car"). James Duncan, 61, president of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, took over the title of board...